Ask a car salesman anything...anything at all.
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HumanDoing said:
What's the most deluded customer offer you've ever had to deal with, e.g. someone coming in thinking they can get in a BMW M4 for £100 a month with no deposit or something like that and do you get training on how to tactfully steer them on to something they might actually be able to afford?
We don't see it as you describe but do get people in with unrealistic financial expectations. A few grand of negative equity, no deposit and want to reduce their monthly payment whilst buying a more expensive car.Normally the result of having continually rolled one finance deal into another repeatedly.
PositronicRay said:
The Mad Monk said:
Burwood said:
Arrived in an expensive car, asked what I did for a living. Annoyed me.
Don't worry about it.Just say 'I am a company director'*.
What line of work do you do, sir?
Just say 'Oh, this and that'.
Note * other answers are available.
Just say 'I work on the dust cart'.
daemon said:
Have you ever seen any evidence that dealers stockpile cars to artificially keep used car prices high?
No, why would they have many £millions all tied up in stock to just let it sit there in the vain hope it might increase in value?Or are you just being facetious as I seem to recall a thread from a good few months ago where something along those lines had been mentioned, probably by someone else and not you?
Blakewater said:
stiII_I_undomyseatbelts said:
TheLordJohn said:
Same as being judged by people who work for almost minimum wage in a 'high end' fashion/jewellery etc store.
Always cracks me up this. Reading some of these threads it makes me glad I don't have the misfortune of sellling cars for a living. It's damned if you do approach a customer & damned if you don't!!.
Yes, but these alpha male director types who are so flush with business they can't stop earning for a single moment don't want engagement. They want your cheapest price but without having to go through any of the process to get that deal. Actually if they were that successful their procurement manager would be doing it for them.
Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 30th October 10:52
Richard-390a0 said:
I honestly don't get why people are so precious about this, it's much the same as a hairdresser asking 'have you been on holiday anywhere nice?'
I actually tip more if my hairdresser doesn't ask any of these stupid irrelevant questions. Or if he doesn't speak at all for that matter.The Mad Monk said:
PositronicRay said:
The Mad Monk said:
Burwood said:
Arrived in an expensive car, asked what I did for a living. Annoyed me.
Don't worry about it.Just say 'I am a company director'*.
What line of work do you do, sir?
Just say 'Oh, this and that'.
Note * other answers are available.
Just say 'I work on the dust cart'.
I remember being taken out to dinner by a girlfriends dad, a farmer who'd made a few bob selling a couple of fields to a developer. He spent the entire dinner complaining (to us) about how he could "buy and sell" the waiting staff and how "they all look down their noses at me"
Nothing of the sort of course they we're just being pleasant and ever so slightly formal, but then it was an expensive place.
HTP99 said:
daemon said:
Have you ever seen any evidence that dealers stockpile cars to artificially keep used car prices high?
No, why would they have many £millions all tied up in stock to just let it sit there in the vain hope it might increase in value?Or are you just being facetious as I seem to recall a thread from a good few months ago where something along those lines had been mentioned, probably by someone else and not you?
It came up again on another thread today
Was just getting confirmation from current motor traders / salesmen
Blakewater said:
I understand some factories do have accessory bays for some accessories to be fitted, though I've seen Vauxhalls being delivered to dealers with those plain black five spoke wheels instead of proper wheels.
That IS the actual wheel. Theres a fitted wheel trim that goes over it which makes them look like an alloy wheel on the base models. The wheel trims will be in the boot, fitted at PDI.The technical term for them is structure wheels.
Edited by daemon on Monday 30th October 12:54
daemon said:
Blakewater said:
I understand some factories do have accessory bays for some accessories to be fitted, though I've seen Vauxhalls being delivered to dealers with those plain black five spoke wheels instead of proper wheels.
That IS the actual wheel. Theres a fitted wheel trim that goes over it which makes them look like an alloy wheel on the base models. The wheel trims will be in the boot, fitted at PDIHTP99 said:
daemon said:
Blakewater said:
I understand some factories do have accessory bays for some accessories to be fitted, though I've seen Vauxhalls being delivered to dealers with those plain black five spoke wheels instead of proper wheels.
That IS the actual wheel. Theres a fitted wheel trim that goes over it which makes them look like an alloy wheel on the base models. The wheel trims will be in the boot, fitted at PDI
Example....
techguyone said:
Wow I never even knew they made steelies in those kind of shapes, and with the covers on you would be fooled they were alloys at a casual glance, that's more devious than when they started painting steelies black and putting alloy type covers over the top.
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